Starting Over

a single bulb light fixture flickered on. She was excit

r patter of dog feet across the hardwood floors further in the house. She thought to herself, 'I'm sure if any critters have gotten in here, Cinnamon will find them before I do.' A

we're going to take

e bedrooms until we get this bedroom cleaned out and remodeled. I would think that we will use this as our permanent bedroom when it's

lipped on the light switch in the master bedroom

at while I unload what we will need for sleeping." Kristoff was always overprepared for eve

d all of their clothing into the living room until Kristoff found the extra bulbs. Kristoff had started unloading all of the work supplies and tools into the

stoff called for Serenity to

he size of the bedroom and attached walk in closet. She opened up the attached bathroom door and realized that the previous owners had also left behind the antique claw foot tub that they had originally stated they would be taking. The master bedroom was exceptionally large for a 1900's farmhouse and the private attached bathroom had been added only about 10 years be

ings he could do with the space in the mas

and immediately blurted

nts, cleaners, supplies for his hobbies and anything else that he felt was worth keeping. Serenity had grown up in a home with a mother that was an 'almost hoarder', as she called it. She had always kept her home neat and orderly and would regu

can come back down to find something to eat really quick before we set up our sleeping quarters and we try to get some rest?" Serenity was well aware of her struggle to think before she blur

ine," and followed S

her grandmother's house, there were 3 doors leading off of the open area into bedrooms. The landing itself had the original hardwood floors and was large enough to

in to the room to investigate. Serenity remembered that this was the smallest bedroom in the house and would likely be a good room to use as storage, since they had no need for 4 bedrooms. Kristoff finally heard somethin

her children or his brother and sister-in-law. In addition, since the room was good sized, she would use one wall as a sewing area. Not that she did a lot of sewing, but on occasion she would repair clothing or sew up some new pillows. Krist

f caught up with her after his day-dreaming. Sh

room. "They left a bunch of junk in here," he remarked as he not

id, "I'll have to start carrying this stuff out and burning it on the weekends while w

t Kristoff. "We are not burning this

t's probably tore up and broken and I'll just have to fix it. You know that I don't

nd she had put all of her hard work and effort into saving to finally get the opportunity to buy a house she could be proud to call her own. And here was Mr. Not So Handy Inside the Home thinking he was going to be makin

she walked across the landing back to the stairs, she said over her shoulder, "Let's get